Horror novel inspired by Shirley Jackson classic expected in 2023


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Elizabeth Hand's 'A Haunting On The Hill' is scheduled to come out in fall 2023. The estate of Shirley Jackson has authorised this upcoming novel inspired by her classic book 'The Haunting Of Hill House', released in 1959. Photo: Handout

The family of the late Shirley Jackson has authorised a novel inspired by her classic The Haunting Of Hill House. Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting On The Hill is scheduled to come out in fall 2023.

"In conversations with Liz we have become convinced that she will continue our mother’s work in a style and form compatible with Shirley’s,” said Jackson's son Laurence Jackson Hyman in a statement released on Thursday through Hand's publisher, Mulholland Books.

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